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Unit 1:
Ch.1
1. Johnny's job was being boss of the attic and almost the whole house. He was also an apprentice. He would even have to go fetch buckets of water, sweeping, helping in the kitchen, and tending the furnace. He was in charge of Dove and Dusty.
2. They do not like each other. Dove gets mad when Johnny tells him to get up.
Ch.3
1. Johnny is very serious about his work. He tells people to start working on their jobs. In Johnny's future he wants to be a silversmith. He wants to own his own silversmith business in the future.
Ch.4
1. Johnny is very dedicated to his job, and wants to work at every possible time.
Ch.6
1. The crest of Lytes was an eye rising up from the sea. From its rays of light streamed out, half-covering the surface of the cup. Johnny felt as if it were an emblem.
Unit 2:
Ch 1.
1. Johnny did not want to let leave the Laphams. He thought they would starve without him.
Ch.3
1. Johnny moved forward delicately. His hand wat outstretched. The silver was running over the top of the furnace. Johnny jumped towards it. His feet without from under him. His hand came down on top of the furnace.
Ch.5
1. Ever since Johnny's accident Mrs. Lapham has been addressing him as a lazy good-for-nothing, a lug-a-bug, and a worthless limb of Satan. Now Dusty and Dove was much more valuable than Johnny. He had started to do chores now, but he failed at most of them. This all happened because of Johnny's crippled hand that was stretched out.
Unit 3:
Ch.1
1.When Rab saw Johnny's arm he said "I dont know how you'll make out. He did not like what Rab was saying to him.
Ch.3
1. Johnny's life revolves around his job as a silversmith. He has an obsession with brass and silver.
Unit 4:
Ch.1
1. Merchant Lyte seemed very rude. He was handsome. He had fine dark eyes, bushy black brows, contrasting smartly with white tie-wig, and yellow as tallow skin.
Ch.5
2. The court favors Johnny because of Cilla. They ended the case
Unit 5:
Ch 2
1. As a messenger Johnny had to know how to ride a horse so he could ride one to deliver papers. Johnny is a very important link in the Whig communication system because he was the way people would get there papers. That's how people found out important news.
Ch.3 & 4
1. Johnny really liked his new life, but at first he was homesick for the Laphams.One disappointment was the Rab was so self-contained.
2. People feel like they have to live up to the expectations of their piers.
3. Rab told Johnny that not everything that other people do should influence them.
4.The Obeservers' Club is a treasonous organization because they plan attacks against England.
Unit 6:
Ch.5
1. To play a part in the Tea Party Johnny needed to be able to chop wood with his left hand with it being steady.
Unit 7:
Ch.1
1. England said that the port of Boston should be closed. Not one ship may enter. No ship can leave. Only His Majesty's warships and transports until the tea was paid for. Boston was to be starved into submission.
2. Punishment from England united the separate colonies because the colonies protested together to get the port of Boston back.
Ch.3
2. Johnny knew that he hated Dove, but he had to put that aside so that Dove wouldn't get hurt.
Ch.4
1. Johnny's feelings towards Mrs. Lapham changed quiete much. Over the months she started to put a drag on him so Johnny didn't like him anymore.
Ch.5
1. Sam Adams' spy in the Lyte household was Mrs. Bessie
Unit 8:
Ch.1
1. The mob was pursuing the Lytes because they wanted to climb behind the safely gates.
Ch.2
1. The Bible in which Johnny found revealed many facts about his ancestory. It had the marriages of when all of his grandparents or great grandparents were born, married, and how many kids they had.
2. Johnny is referring to that he does not think the Lytes will come back.
Ch.5
1. The freedom that James Otis prosposes for people is that there is not enough reason to go into war, the rebellious newspaper shouldn't be stopped, there are no firing squads, and that there shouldn't be jails jammed with political prisoners.
Unit 9:
Ch.3
1. In the beginning of this novel Johnny loved his job. He still does, but he cant be a silversmith like he used to be. Well he can't be as good. Since his fingers are pretty much stuck together he can not use that hand. But he tries to anyways. Plus he does not even work for the Laphams anymore. I thought he would never leave them, but he did.
2. When the Minute Men were preparing for war they each made their own bullets, and then his cartridges, to fit his own gun.
Ch.5
1. As Johnny looked into the face of death he felt much fear.
Unit 10:
Ch.1
1. An occurrence that led the patriots to believe that the British were beginning to move against the rebels was when they were docking all of their boats.
2. There was a signal to Charlestown that the patriots plan to use if the British move. The signal was that Paul Revere would row over to Charlestown, go to Lexingtonand tell them a sizable force may come soon. Warning will help the patriots by giving them more time to have a plan to either prepare of flee away.
Ch.2
1. Rab told Johnny that he was leaving Boston because there was going to be no expedition going on. Johnny took the news badly. He could not endure that Rab should leave him: desert him.
Unit 11:
Ch.1
1. The first battle occured in Lexington. The Minute Men were defeated because they only had seventy soldiers while their oppenents had seven hundred.
Ch.3
1. The British were unable to punish the opposition leaders because the opposition leaders were protected by the somerset's guns in Charlestown.
Ch.4
1. The detail about Johnny that convinced Lavinia to find out about Johnny's past was that Johnny likes to be himself.
Ch.5
1. When Johnny says "A boy in time of peace and a man in time of war" he means that he is not grown up yet but once he steps on the battle field he has the strength of a full grown man.
Unit 12:
Ch.1
1. To fit in with ways British soldiers looked Johnny made himself dirty, tore his uniform, tore his flesh,and lost equipment.
Ch.2
1. Johnny is amazed that the rebels have defeated the British because the British had way more people and better weapons. The rebels had less people and worse weapons.
Ch.3
1. As Johnny stood on the Lexington Green he was thinking how it was so brave that he could laugh or he could cry. He brushed his arm accross his face.
Ch.5
1. Rab had a bleeding desease so he was internally bleeding until he died. Johnny felt very lonely and like nothing was real once Rab died.
2. Johnny didn't feel ashamed of his hand anymore because once Rab had died he felt like nothing mattered anymore. He felt like everything was new.